Word: sternly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they swore "to defend maidens, widows and orphans" and to "suffer no extortion" to be practiced which they are able to prevent...
...many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky. As the Trotskys settled in Norway, Mme Trotsky, worn by the strain, released to the world Press her confession of fear that Sergei...
...profiting by having their "Frontier Guard'' raid villages of their Afro-African countrymen, torture women and chiefs, seize black bucks and sell them into slavery in French Gabun and Spanish Fernando Po. When a League of Nations Commission verified the practice. President King and his followers, on stern advice from Washington, resigned. Next Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber was $1 per Ib. the State Department had encouraged Mr. Firestone to start a huge rubber plantation in Liberia and lend the African Republic money...
...September afternoon in 1901, President McKinley stood in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, smiling wearily toward the crowd that surged forward to grasp his hand. Beside him a stern, square-jawed young man was waving the people away. ''Oh, let them in," said the President to his personal secretary. "They've come a long ways. I'll be glad to meet them." Obediently the secretary stood aside until the room was filled, then stepped down to close the door. He did not notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped...
...good people of Orange, Tex. were in their beds when into the Silver Slipper roadhouse strode a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. man brandishing two pistols and displaying a Texas Ranger's badge. The Orange revelers recognized him as Rev. Edgar Eskridge, 40, hard-hitting Baptist crusader, stern critic of local law enforcement...